Not really true, not all cars run on 12 volt, some are 24v and some are 36v as well. Expect to see more of that coming in the years, GM was one of the first to start transitioning it's higher end cars and some trucks to a 24v system. Ford, and Chrysler have also done it.
Never noticed much difference in mileage and even now the crappiest mileage I get is when I fill up at one of the few stations that sell pure gasoline.
Oh there's a huge difference in mileage, you normally don't notice unless you're driving huge distances. When I drove from Southern Ontario, to Northern Alberta a few years ago through the US I could tell. With no ethanol I was easily getting 650-760km/tank before topping up. With 10% I was seeing 550-575, that was on a computerized car('96 saturn). My parents drive out every year and have a vehicle that can use the E10 stuff, and they see roughly the same drop to increase.
And here in Canada, it depends on what company is producing the ethanol. We do indeed use corn, but as you mentioned we also use wheat. The big difference in Canada is we can see some really screwy gasoline blends. And mentioning that your old carbed truck used to ping, that means you needed to have it tuned properly. That's the most common reason for pinging. The other is using too low of an octane, in which case dumping a octane booster fixes it.
Yeah not really true, I saw premium in Iowa two years ago that had a statement at the pump that said "all blends may contain up to 10% ethanol, premium may contain up to 5%" We see it in Canada at some stations too, Shell is one of the few where you can buy 91 and 93 without ethanol in it.
If you're using an incandescent for household heat you're a fucking moron.
Can we use *zing* now as something flies over your head? Yes, yes we can. See, in northern climates where the temperature in the well fall can hit -15 to -20C, any "waste heat" is good heat. Right now, it's fall, not even late fall. It's a toasty -15C, and I'm not even *that* far north(~51deg/N) actually. There's two primary sources of heating here, wood and gas. Wood is cheap, because we have a massive pine beetle infestation. With that, almost everyone has a fireplace, used to be a few years ago they thought that it got cold enough to kill them, sadly didn't hold up. So now there are thousands upon thousands of hectares of wood that's either cut for firewood or pulp.
Personally I can't wait to head back to southern ontario, where it was a nice 8C and rain, instead of 8cm of snow.
Isn't forcing others to do your way an almost exact antonym of "liberal"? But then, both factions of the US neocon party are near exact antonyms of "sanity".
Might hold true, if liberals were actually liberals. Useful to note that some of the greatest excesses in the last decade have been by progressives and liberals in the name of "doing it for *insert group*" while screwing over everyone else.
This story does sound a lot like the Republicans screaming ZOMG OBAMA'S TAKING AWAY OUR INCANDESCENT BULBS when it was really Congress saying "oh, hey, light bulbs have to be x% efficient now, but if you can get an incandescent bulb up there, go for it."
In the winter, incandescent's are 100% efficient. Funny that.
Canada's a big place. I live near in Ottawa. Rarely do we see sustained winds above 100 km/h. No tornados in this area either (although further south in Ontario sees a few small ones).
Ottawa is the odd man out in the province, rarely do you see much of anything outside of severe thunderstorms. And while you don't see tornado's you do have them up that way, and further south in Ontario, we get into the northern tip of tornado alley. And if you mean "small" as in F4 and EF3's then I guess...that's small. Really even as densely packed as southern ontario is, we miss a few of them and only can guess due to reported damage, further into northern ontario there are plenty as well, the difference is population and reported damage. Recently they've started tracking them by satellite in the far north by looking back with ground mapped data. It helps list tracks, but doesn't really give an idea of strength unless you can get someone in, and in some cases the only way in is by helicopter or plane. And EC won't dump money on that.
Yes we see wind gusts well over 100KM/H, but very little sustained like what would would get out of a hurricane.
I see you've never been to the north or south of Alberta. Sustained winds in the 110km/h range are common, in fact they can be bad enough to shut down highways to truck traffic.
Living in Canada, in an area where there fiercest winds we have are 100 km/h
Really? Really? Come on man, I'm in Alberta right now and we see 120km/h and 130km/h gusts through the mountains, and we haven't even hit on tornado's, updrafts(favorite in southern ontario), microbursts, and those lovely unpredictable t-storms in the summer that spawn in the lakes, or prairies. We sure do see winds higher than 100km/h.
Sat TV companies' "on-demand" flix are delivered by internet and stored on the DVR.
Really? I'm in the "stix"(far northern rural alberta--oddly I have broadband though) and if I want to watch something on satellite that's "on-demand" I punch it in, and away I go. I get billed on my next statement for however much it was, usually $2.99-4.99 for the entire day.
Considering how shitty nvidia drivers have been since ~292.xx? They'd have to pay me to buy one of their cards at this point, seems that they've done a great flip as has happened in the past, and they outsourced their driver development to 3 cats and a dog.
No need to charge them with anything... publicizing their real names and locations would do as much damage as charging them with anything would. Of course, there lies the lynch mob....
Congratulations, and welcome to the world of sexual harassment. Even if you're innocent, you're screwed forever.
not my experience with seagate. every replacement came with MAX 90 days, you can even verify that on their website, the serial number of the replacement refurbished drive is 90 days max.
I'm going to guess it has more to do with where you live, apart from anything else. Any replacement drive I've received has had 1yr on it.
There is no such thing as a "meltdown-proof" design. All reactors can suffer catastrophic failure that releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment. It would be more accurate to say the alternative designs you have mentioned are meltdown-resistant, in the same way bulletproof glass isn't truly bulletproof... you just need a bigger gun.
Conservation is the cheapest source of "new" energy supply.
Really? Perhaps you can explain why then where "conservation" is heavily pushed, and renewable are also being heavily pushed the price of electricity has skyrocketed. There's nothing "cheap" about that.
. I was exposed to a large number of essays written by college students from ~1890-1910. They were all on the level that I was expected to write freshman year of high school.
Not bad, these days it would be in the grade 6-8 range.
On the other hand, if you manage to get out of the tiny area of southern Ontario where most of the time you can't even go that fast on the highway because of traffic, you'll realize that much of the time going faster is a dumb idea anyway because you simply don't have time to stop before that moose takes the top of your car (and the top of you) off.
Tiny area of southern ontario? Well since the majority of the population of Canada lives between Windsor and Hull, I guess that's tiny. But I'm currently living in "moose country" well that and bear, and deer, and elk country too. In northern alberta, the posted limit on 2 lane highways here is 100km/h. In Ontario that would be 80.
Depends on where you are, there's a huge demand for driving jobs in Canada still. The problem and the gutting and cutting of driving jobs comes from companies who hire drivers who are trained in fly-by-night schools, or where companies try to cut corners by bringing in unskilled labor from the 3rd world and run them through the fly-by-night causing lovely accidents and said company eventually self destructs from insurance costs.
I looked into professional driving 5ish years ago, and there are days I wish I'd gone that route. In Canada at least, the demand for transported goods has hit the point where the government is now allowing double length to be pulled on the highways between 10pm and 5:30am.
Is there an official reason for regionally differed releases?
European release dates differ from NA and Asian release dates, and even AUS dates sometimes. Generally, NA/Asian releases are tuesdays, and european are thursday but mostly friday.
As for regionlocking a game out until the confirmed date, EA is hardly the first one to do this too. Blizzard, Ubisoft, Activision, and pretty much everyone else does this if it's a major release as well. Your second point that splitting server nodes helps, it can help a lot.
Anyone with a lick of common sense would learn basic rope and knot tying beforehand. Then again, common sense being taken at character creation seems to be a bit on the low side these days.
The deniers will believe whatever their masters tell them. Jumping through hoops to satisfy them accomplishes nothing, and only lends credibility to the false notion that this is still being debated by scientists. It's not.
Odd, this sounds like the reasoning of atheists towards *insert religion.* Always interesting to see exactly how corrupted people come towards the "we already know..." mentality.
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Not really true, not all cars run on 12 volt, some are 24v and some are 36v as well. Expect to see more of that coming in the years, GM was one of the first to start transitioning it's higher end cars and some trucks to a 24v system. Ford, and Chrysler have also done it.
Never noticed much difference in mileage and even now the crappiest mileage I get is when I fill up at one of the few stations that sell pure gasoline.
Oh there's a huge difference in mileage, you normally don't notice unless you're driving huge distances. When I drove from Southern Ontario, to Northern Alberta a few years ago through the US I could tell. With no ethanol I was easily getting 650-760km/tank before topping up. With 10% I was seeing 550-575, that was on a computerized car('96 saturn). My parents drive out every year and have a vehicle that can use the E10 stuff, and they see roughly the same drop to increase.
And here in Canada, it depends on what company is producing the ethanol. We do indeed use corn, but as you mentioned we also use wheat. The big difference in Canada is we can see some really screwy gasoline blends. And mentioning that your old carbed truck used to ping, that means you needed to have it tuned properly. That's the most common reason for pinging. The other is using too low of an octane, in which case dumping a octane booster fixes it.
Yeah not really true, I saw premium in Iowa two years ago that had a statement at the pump that said "all blends may contain up to 10% ethanol, premium may contain up to 5%" We see it in Canada at some stations too, Shell is one of the few where you can buy 91 and 93 without ethanol in it.
If you're using an incandescent for household heat you're a fucking moron.
Can we use *zing* now as something flies over your head? Yes, yes we can. See, in northern climates where the temperature in the well fall can hit -15 to -20C, any "waste heat" is good heat. Right now, it's fall, not even late fall. It's a toasty -15C, and I'm not even *that* far north(~51deg/N) actually. There's two primary sources of heating here, wood and gas. Wood is cheap, because we have a massive pine beetle infestation. With that, almost everyone has a fireplace, used to be a few years ago they thought that it got cold enough to kill them, sadly didn't hold up. So now there are thousands upon thousands of hectares of wood that's either cut for firewood or pulp.
Personally I can't wait to head back to southern ontario, where it was a nice 8C and rain, instead of 8cm of snow.
Isn't forcing others to do your way an almost exact antonym of "liberal"? But then, both factions of the US neocon party are near exact antonyms of "sanity".
Might hold true, if liberals were actually liberals. Useful to note that some of the greatest excesses in the last decade have been by progressives and liberals in the name of "doing it for *insert group*" while screwing over everyone else.
This story does sound a lot like the Republicans screaming ZOMG OBAMA'S TAKING AWAY OUR INCANDESCENT BULBS when it was really Congress saying "oh, hey, light bulbs have to be x% efficient now, but if you can get an incandescent bulb up there, go for it."
In the winter, incandescent's are 100% efficient. Funny that.
Reading comprehension fail.
Says the person who missed the implied "words between the lines."
Canada's a big place. I live near in Ottawa. Rarely do we see sustained winds above 100 km/h. No tornados in this area either (although further south in Ontario sees a few small ones).
Ottawa is the odd man out in the province, rarely do you see much of anything outside of severe thunderstorms. And while you don't see tornado's you do have them up that way, and further south in Ontario, we get into the northern tip of tornado alley. And if you mean "small" as in F4 and EF3's then I guess...that's small. Really even as densely packed as southern ontario is, we miss a few of them and only can guess due to reported damage, further into northern ontario there are plenty as well, the difference is population and reported damage. Recently they've started tracking them by satellite in the far north by looking back with ground mapped data. It helps list tracks, but doesn't really give an idea of strength unless you can get someone in, and in some cases the only way in is by helicopter or plane. And EC won't dump money on that.
Yes we see wind gusts well over 100KM/H, but very little sustained like what would would get out of a hurricane.
I see you've never been to the north or south of Alberta. Sustained winds in the 110km/h range are common, in fact they can be bad enough to shut down highways to truck traffic.
Living in Canada, in an area where there fiercest winds we have are 100 km/h
Really? Really? Come on man, I'm in Alberta right now and we see 120km/h and 130km/h gusts through the mountains, and we haven't even hit on tornado's, updrafts(favorite in southern ontario), microbursts, and those lovely unpredictable t-storms in the summer that spawn in the lakes, or prairies. We sure do see winds higher than 100km/h.
Good try, but this was a little further north.
I suspect this will be looked at as one of the great political suicide speaches of all time.
Missing the irony I see. As a useful protip: I normally live 103km from Toronto.
Sat TV companies' "on-demand" flix are delivered by internet and stored on the DVR.
Really? I'm in the "stix"(far northern rural alberta--oddly I have broadband though) and if I want to watch something on satellite that's "on-demand" I punch it in, and away I go. I get billed on my next statement for however much it was, usually $2.99-4.99 for the entire day.
Who do you think you are? Obama?
Considering how shitty nvidia drivers have been since ~292.xx? They'd have to pay me to buy one of their cards at this point, seems that they've done a great flip as has happened in the past, and they outsourced their driver development to 3 cats and a dog.
No need to charge them with anything... publicizing their real names and locations would do as much damage as charging them with anything would. Of course, there lies the lynch mob....
Congratulations, and welcome to the world of sexual harassment. Even if you're innocent, you're screwed forever.
not my experience with seagate. every replacement came with MAX 90 days, you can even verify that on their website, the serial number of the replacement refurbished drive is 90 days max.
I'm going to guess it has more to do with where you live, apart from anything else. Any replacement drive I've received has had 1yr on it.
There is no such thing as a "meltdown-proof" design. All reactors can suffer catastrophic failure that releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment. It would be more accurate to say the alternative designs you have mentioned are meltdown-resistant, in the same way bulletproof glass isn't truly bulletproof... you just need a bigger gun.
Thorium reactors by design are meltdown proof.
Conservation is the cheapest source of "new" energy supply.
Really? Perhaps you can explain why then where "conservation" is heavily pushed, and renewable are also being heavily pushed the price of electricity has skyrocketed. There's nothing "cheap" about that.
. I was exposed to a large number of essays written by college students from ~1890-1910. They were all on the level that I was expected to write freshman year of high school.
Not bad, these days it would be in the grade 6-8 range.
On the other hand, if you manage to get out of the tiny area of southern Ontario where most of the time you can't even go that fast on the highway because of traffic, you'll realize that much of the time going faster is a dumb idea anyway because you simply don't have time to stop before that moose takes the top of your car (and the top of you) off.
Tiny area of southern ontario? Well since the majority of the population of Canada lives between Windsor and Hull, I guess that's tiny. But I'm currently living in "moose country" well that and bear, and deer, and elk country too. In northern alberta, the posted limit on 2 lane highways here is 100km/h. In Ontario that would be 80.
Driving jobs are already starting to disappear.
Depends on where you are, there's a huge demand for driving jobs in Canada still. The problem and the gutting and cutting of driving jobs comes from companies who hire drivers who are trained in fly-by-night schools, or where companies try to cut corners by bringing in unskilled labor from the 3rd world and run them through the fly-by-night causing lovely accidents and said company eventually self destructs from insurance costs.
I looked into professional driving 5ish years ago, and there are days I wish I'd gone that route. In Canada at least, the demand for transported goods has hit the point where the government is now allowing double length to be pulled on the highways between 10pm and 5:30am.
Ah, one of those capitalists that believes that if something is related to money, that must be the one and only thing reason involved.
Never been to the province of Ontario have you? 62mph limit, when the highway is rated for 80mph.
Is there an official reason for regionally differed releases?
European release dates differ from NA and Asian release dates, and even AUS dates sometimes. Generally, NA/Asian releases are tuesdays, and european are thursday but mostly friday.
As for regionlocking a game out until the confirmed date, EA is hardly the first one to do this too. Blizzard, Ubisoft, Activision, and pretty much everyone else does this if it's a major release as well. Your second point that splitting server nodes helps, it can help a lot.
Anyone with a lick of common sense would learn basic rope and knot tying beforehand. Then again, common sense being taken at character creation seems to be a bit on the low side these days.
The deniers will believe whatever their masters tell them. Jumping through hoops to satisfy them accomplishes nothing, and only lends credibility to the false notion that this is still being debated by scientists. It's not.
Odd, this sounds like the reasoning of atheists towards *insert religion.* Always interesting to see exactly how corrupted people come towards the "we already know..." mentality.